Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon

 
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Adamson, P.
Andreopoulos, C.
Ayres, D.S.
Backhouse, C.
Barr, G.
Barrett, W.L.
Bishai, M.
Blake, A.
Bock, B.
Bock, G.J.
Boehnlein, D.J.
Bogert, D.
Bower, C.
Budd, S.
Cavanaugh, S.
Cherdack, D.
Childress, S.
Choudhary, B.C.
Cobb, J.H.
Coelho, J.A.B.
Coleman, S.J.
Corwin, L.
Cronin-Hennessy, D.
Danko, I.Z.
de Jong, J.K.
Devenish, N.E.
Diwan, M.V.
Dorman, M.
Escobar, C.O.
Evans, J.J.
Falk, E.
Frohne, M.V.
Gallagher, H.R.
Godley, A.
Gomes, R.A.
Goodman, M.C.
Gouffon, P.
Gran, R.
Grant, N.
Grashorn, E.W.
Grzelak, K.
Habig, A.
Harris, D.
Harris, P.G.
Hartnell, J.
Hatcher, R.
Himmel, A.
Holin, A.
Huang, X.
Hylen, J.
Ilic, J.
Irwin, G.M.
Isvan, Z.
Jaffe, D.E.
James, C.
Jensen, D.
Kafka, T.
Kasahara, S.M.S.
Koizumi, G.
Kopp, S.
Kordosky, M.
Krahn, Z.
Kreymer, A.
Lang, K.
Lefeuvre, G.
Ling, J.
Litchfield, P.J.
Litchfield, R.P.
Loiacono, L.
Lucas, P.
Mann, W.A.
Marshak, M.L.
Marshall, J.S.
Mayer, N.
McGowan, A.M.
Mehdiyev, R.
Meier, J.R.
Messier, M.D.
Michael, D.G.
Miller, W.H.
Mishra, S.R.
Mitchell, J.
Moore, C.D.
Mualem, L.
Mufson, S.
Musser, J.
Naples, D.
Nelson, J.K.
Newman, H.B.
Nichol, R.J.
Nicholls, T.C.
Oliver, W.P.
Orchanian, M.
Paley, J.
Patterson, R.B.
Pawloski, G.
Pearce, G.F.
Peterson, E.A.
Pittam, R.
Plunkett, R.K.
Ratchford, J.
Raufer, T.M.
Rebel, B.
Reichenbacher, J.
Rodrigues, P.A.
Rosenfeld, C.
Rubin, H.A.
Ryabov, V.A.
Sanchez, M.C.
Schneps, J.
Schreiner, P.
Semenov, V.K.
Shanahan, P.
Sousa, A.
Strait, M.
Tagg, N.
Talaga, R.L.
Thomas, J.
Thomson, M.A.
Thron, J.L.
Tinti, G.
Toner, R.
Tzanakos, G.
Urheim, J.
Vahle, P.
Viren, B.
Weber, A.
Webb, R.C.
White, C.
Whitehead, L.
Wojcicki, S.G.
Wright, D.M.
Yang, T.
Zwaska, R.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.10.010
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Adamson, P., C. Andreopoulos, D.S. Ayres, C. Backhouse, G. Barr, W.L. Barrett, M. Bishai, et al. 2011. “Observation in the MINOS Far Detector of the Shadowing of Cosmic Rays by the Sun and Moon.” Astroparticle Physics 34 (6) (January): 457–466. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.10.010.
Abstract
The shadowing of cosmic ray primaries by the moon and sun was observed by the MINOS far detector at a depth of 2070 mwe using 83.54 million cosmic ray muons accumulated over 1857.91 live-days. The shadow of the moon was detected at the 5.6 σ level and the shadow of the sun at the 3.8 σ level using a log-likelihood search in celestial coordinates. The moon shadow was used to quantify the absolute astrophysical pointing of the detector to be 0.17 ± 0.12°. Hints of interplanetary magnetic field effects were observed in both the sun and moon shadow
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